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[bennyboy]

If you say a super-kind loving God is watching over me, then I'll look around and see suffering, and conclude that the God isn't very effective at watching over people.

the problem of evil is answered by Plantinga's free will defense.

If God wanted only good, and had omniscient foresight, then he could not have allowed the existence of free-willed creatures who will create evil. Therefore, at creation, God knowingly created a system in which evil would exist. In what sense, then, is he all good? Look at the specific nature of evil in the world today-- starving or abused children, for example. If he is all-knowing and all-powerful, then why would he have allowed child rape?

A child-rape-allowing God doesn't seem fully good to me. Maybe you can explain how in God's mysterious ways these are good events?

And since Plantinga is all about free will, let me ask you this: has God given the child free will to resist or avoid the rape, or the power to escape the suffering of starvation? No.